Prediction: Female Hrothgar will be human-like, not beast-like

[VeyaAkemi]

Yeah it's always very jarring when the story tries to play off a female Au Ra as some kind of badass when they all look like this:

Y'now, I know someone who has had the opposite perception, he completely failed to perceive fem Au Ra or Miqos as cutesy in any way because the primary exposure to those races are Sadu and Y'shtola respectively, and it only clicked in place they are meant to be when he made alts of those races, when he was confused on how he managed to completely miss those elements, I pointed out that Sadu and Y'sh very rarely emote(in the sense of using animations that we can use by typing commands in chat), and when they do, they use a very select few emotes, cuz if they used the general selection from their races, they'd give off the completely wrong energy than the writers intend out of them.

And hey who said that tiny ladies can't be awesome?

[CidHeiral]

Y'now, I know someone who has had the opposite perception, he completely failed to perceive fem Au Ra or Miqos as cutesy in any way because the primary exposure to those races are Sadu and Y'shtola respectively

I'm happy your friend had a great experience. Unfortunately I had a hard time buying into Sadu being a badass warrior so that part of the story didn't really click with me.

it felt like they believe it looks ridiculous, I am someone who thinks stature plays very little role in how a character comes off, and things like demeanor and, for lack of better word, "energy" they give off are substantially more important.

Funny you should say that because "energy" is a lot of what turns me off to Au Ra. I'm a big fan of the high energy tomboy vibe Highlanders have and the meek anime waifu vibe of Au Ra is pretty much the exact opposite of that. But of course that's just my opinion. If you think they're awesome, more power to you! That is exactly why there should be a wide variety of races in the game as I spoke about in my earlier post. Plenty of people think female Highlanders are hideous and too aggressive but I love everything about them.

It's a failure if only a minority play it due to how much work they're putting into it.

Wrong. Read the thread.